So I've always thought that having magnets near hard-drives was bad for the hard-drives, yet these days all I see are magnet-tipped screw drivers. Even those "iFixit" branded ones, which are obviously ...

What is there to see inside a magnet that's smaller than the head of a pin? Quite a lot, say physicists who've invented a new kind of MRI technique to do just that. The technique may eventually enable ...

Computers perform complex calculations using billions of tiny electronic switches called transistors, which are organized into circuits and memory. Replacing these transistors with magnetic switches ...

Ion trap quantum computers hold and manipulate charged particles, called ions, to encode information. But to make a processor that works faster than a classical computer would require millions of such ...

Warnings about magnets and gadgets have been passed down like tech folklore, often without much explanation. The reality is more nuanced: some electronics are genuinely vulnerable to magnetic fields, ...

STACKS of nanomagnets could make future supercomputers run leaner. Microchips made from tiny magnets rather than conventional power-hungry transistors may enable intensive number-crunching tasks like ...

EL PASO, Texas (Sept. 11, 2023) ­– Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize the world, allowing massive health and science computation problems to be solved exponentially faster than by ...